The study is the third in the series that started last 2013. It’s objectives revolved around knowing how the new law affects the lives of its dependents.

“For people that didn’t have health insurance, California has been very successful in enrolling two-thirds of that group. But the group that is left is a harder-to-reach group,” stated senior vice president Mollyann Brodie from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which released the survey’s results.

Rob Duke's insight:

In California, the elected to have their own plan (they already had an insurance commissioner, so this made a great deal of sense for them: also, they had advanced medicare and medical, so they spent a good bit of state money on health care, anyway). Under the California run system, a Bronze plan runs about $446/mo. for a median age/median income family of four (minus an $82 mo. tax credit for a total of $364/mo.). In contrast, the median income/age family pays: $800 with no subsidies for a comparable plan (if you live in Anchorage or Fairbanks).

A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on felony securities fraud charges that accuse the Republican of misleading investors before he became the state’s top law enforcement officer, a special prosecutor said on Saturday.

"Ban the box," which prevents employers from asking job seekers about their criminal records, is gaining in popularity. The goal is to give ex-offenders a fair chance at landing employment by delaying questions about a criminal past until further in the hiring process.

Be open and honest in educating these kids. Scare campaigns and propaganda, as we've seen in the past, is ineffective and damaging. Kids and teenagers are intelligent, they can make better decisions with research-backed information.

Consequently, people like Ms von der Heyde have some tough decisions to make. She is unwilling to raise prices to pass the extra costs along to customers, as London is already expensive. So pay differentials may have to go, meaning that senior employees won’t get wage rises in line with the lowest-paid. The hospitality industry already employs a younger workforce than any other big sector (about one-third are under 25); many hotels and bars will hire more youngsters, who do not qualify for the new living wage until they are 25 years old. That should at least help to reduce youth unemployment, currently 16%.

When I first shook hands with Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval this winter outside of the Mexican Consulate in NYC, images of my one of my favorite tios sprung to mind, creating an immediate sense of kinshi

Rob Duke's insight:

I was traveling throughout western Mexico in the Spring of 2006 and saw that Felipe Calderon's Presidential campaign to get tough on drug traffickers was being received well by the voters. I also never had any perception of danger towards me as an American and the streets were relatively safe. I would not travel there now.

Even though Presidents in Mexico serve only 1 five-year term, Mexico is still plagued by this unfortunate policy change.

Minimize damage. The browser is going to be penetrated, but it doesn’t generally contain much sensitive information. Compartmentalize your environment to prevent attackers from accessing sensitive data and resources directly from the compromised browser.

Contain the attack. The initial infection isn’t where the real damage happens. However, attackers use it to launch follow-on attacks on ever more useful and privileged accounts and devices. Ensure that attackers can’t use the browser as a beachhead to expand their attacks into the rest of the network.

Automate recovery. After detecting a breach it can take significant time and effort to lock down the affected machine and restore things to a safe state. This is expensive, and delays might give the attacker time to move on before the infection is cleared. Also, it tends to limit recovery to cases where an infection has been definitively detected. If recovery can be made quick and cheap enough, it can be done when there is even a suspicion of infection. Better yet, the system can be recovered to a safe state very frequently even if nothing has been detected to remove any advanced or zero-day malware.

As a former deputy sheriff, I know from enforcing senseless marijuana laws that children only are being put in more danger when marijuana is kept illegal (“ Legal pot poses another threat to children,” July 8 letter from Dr. Johanna Said). The term “controlled substance” is very misleading. The goal of prohibiting marijuana was to eradicate its use, but in reality, the drug has become infinitely harder for law enforcement to control. People like me, and other advocates of marijuana legalization, are not totally blind to the harms that drugs pose to children. We just happen to know that legalizing and regulating marijuana will actually make everyone safer. Merely decriminalizing it will do nothing to undercut the dangerous illicit market that is currently selling to kids everywhere.

“Our idea is that using these different tools — whether it’s sanctions enforcement or civil assets forfeiture or criminal cases for pillage as a war crime or anti-money laundering or even basic bank or mail fraud — that there are opportunities the nodes of the system where people are making a profit off of the conflicts that are ongoing in parts of eastern and central Africa,” Kumar explained.

César Hidalgo tackles the question in another way. Economies grow, he says, because the information contained in them grows—not just in people’s heads, but also in the social networks that connect everyone and even in the objects that populate the world. What is more, this ever-expanding pool of information did not start with humans, but dates back to the beginning of time. “[W]e are born from it, and it is born from us,” he writes gnostically.

Rob Duke's insight:

This is the basis of my Social Energy Theory. Life's a team sport and those who cooperate and share do better than those who don't; or are kept from doing so by whatever institution is altering incentives (e.g. vertical c.j. system; or drug lords...either are detrimental, but the trick is in telling which is which.....).

Dwight Waldo, H. George Fredrickson, Chester Newland, and Elinor Ostrom all pointed towards ways that public administrators could help balance the way people deal with one another. See the work of Alberto Guereirro Ramos also for a great discussion of how both the left and right tend to stifle these tendencies toward cooperation.

Do hospitals experience a larger number of patient admissions to the emergency room and/or labor and delivery during full moons? My nurse friend claims that this is a fact.

Brian, 34, San Ramon, California

Dear Brian,

When there’s a full moon, hospitalization rates do not increase (or decrease for that matter). That pretty definitive conclusion is based on several studies I’ve read this week, all of which tested the hypothesis that the moon affects our health.

Rob Duke's insight:

....but it sure seems like it. When I was working the street in L.A., we also seemed to go batpoo crazy during the Santa Ana winds, too....

FAIRBANKS- The Court of Appeals has denied a petition meant to keep alleged statements out of court that support an alternate confession in the case of the Fairbanks Four.

In a ruling obtained by the Newscenter this afternoon, the Court of Appeals declined to take the petition and further ruled that alleged statements made by Jason Wallace under attorney-client privilege could indeed be brought into the Superior Court should the Judge rule they are admissible.

Contained in the three page response, it is confirmed that Wallace (referred to as J.W.) "made statements to an investigator working for his attorney which, if true, would tend to exculpate four defendants who were previously convicted of the same crime that J.W. described."

Wallace's attorney Jason Gazewood has fought to keep those allegations sealed and out of court as the four men Kevin Pease, Eugene Vent, Marvin Roberts, and George Frese continue forward with their litigation in a post-conviction relief filing.

Yesterday Superior Court Judge Paul Lyle ruled to lift the temporary stay based on the Appellate Court's decision. We will have more details to follow.

But conversations with locals, gang experts, and law enforcement suggest that, so far at least, the social media threat is just that—a mostly internet-based phenomenon, albeit one that is having some ripple effects on the street.

"Social media takes a big toll on the community when everybody is seeing it and everybody is paying attention to it," Reynaldo Reaser, executive director of Reclaiming America's Communities through Empowerment (RACE), a South LA–based gang intervention organization, tells VICE. "Law enforcement is paying attention to it to where they have a level of concern for violence in the area, so they put out a tactical alert on this."

Rightly so. But is the online game actually resulting in an increased body count? The LA Times reports that a series of shootings in South LA left one dead and 12 wounded this past weekend, but also that the bloodshed was largely confined to the city's most traditionally dangerous neighborhoods and did not represent a departure from the normal amount of gang violence.

As a City Manager with a few dealings in Sacramento, term limits meant that legislators are no longer in charge. Term limits shifts the power to lobbyists and the Sentor's/Assembly Person's professional staff. California has the Line Item Veto, so much of the power has already been shifted to the governor (power of the purse); by enacting term limits, you also move the power of persuasion. Instead of researching and writing new laws/amending old ones in partnership with their constituents, the legislator never has the time to figure out what they should do (because they term out), so they begin to depend on the lobbyists to help them. Laws are now written by interest groups and not by your reps. When I in grad school, I felt this way too despite what my professors recommended. It took having to witness the impacts for me to change my mind.

But, as in every country that has tried to ban alcohol, smuggling and trying to make drinks locally has become the alternatives for those who want to have a drink, or for those who want to profit from selling banned substances.

The results were consistent with the economists’ hypotheses: Those who were getting a free meal spent the most (especially one cheeky person who, judging by this chart from the study, really went all out). Those who were splitting the bill spent less, and those who were paying individually spent the least — costs are in Israeli new shekels.

Rob Duke's insight:

Free riding is always a problem in society, so we have to be careful with the incentives and disincentives that we set up.

We found that some behaviors were less helpful in changing others. We found two that had little to no impact, thereby providing useful guidance on what not to do:

Being nice. Sorry, but nice guys finish last in the change game. It might be easier if all it took to bring about change was to have a warm, positive relationship with others. But that isn’t the case. Giving others incessant requests, suggestions, and advice. This is commonly called nagging. For most recipients this is highly annoying and only serves to irritate them rather than change them. (This is the approach many tend to adopt first, despite its lack of success.)

I don't understand how someone can think that Congress can scale back on rights given to individuals. I'm sure if we wanted to scale back on the right of freedom of religion Mr. Santorum would feel the same as Ms. Maddow does about same sex marriage.

I think he's saying that when the court makes a narrow ruling, Congress has some room to close that problem, but he claims much more power than that (at times). Of course, Congress can amend the Constitution, but, if that's what he means, he glossing that point over and underestimating how difficult it is to do so.

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